Women and the U.S. Constitution: 1776–1920
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In the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, gender was a non-issue. Women played no role in the authorship of either the original 1787 document or the Bill of Rights, and were largely excluded from the Constitution’s application. As a result, American women played a peripheral role in constitutional history until 1920. This pamphlet looks at this role as it developed throughout the nineteenth-century, culminating in 1920 with the passing of the women’s sufferage amendment in 1920.
Jean H. Baker is a professor of history at Goucher College, editor of Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited, and the author of several books including Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists; Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography; and Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in Mid-Nineteenth Century America.
2009 v 56 pages
ISBN: 978-0-87229-163-8
Women and the U.S. Constitution: 1776–1920
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